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OneNote Integration
Dave Armes
posted this on December 07, 2011 03:21
Very interested in getting one of these, but need to confirm something before I do. Once I have sent the page to onenote, can I work with the output? I need to be able to tag content predominantly to mark actions, follow-ups etc?
Can I do this with content transfered from the livescribe?
Thanks
Dave
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Hi,
Notes are transferred to OneNote as a PDF. You should be able to use it like any PDF imported into OneNote.
Until Livescribe provides for direct OneNote integration and not just a PDF, it's not useful to me. Please make that enhancement. Are there any plans to do that, or has livescribe specifically decided not to?
I am able to tag, add a picture, edit, draw on the PDF in OneNote. Is there something else you wanted from the export?
I would like to be able to fully search text within OneNote and also easily cut and paste text to/from OneNote, and add new text from other sources directly to the text already there.
I have existing notebooks in OneNote, and I would add to them with the imported notes, and that would be a regular activity. Having the new notes as PDFs that are not fully integrated into my existing notes is too problematic.
Also, if I have to download the Livescribe into the native application and then separately export it into OneNote, as opposed to directly and easily importing into OneNote, it adds too many steps to the process.
Less important, but useful, would be having the audio linked capability that Livescribe has.
The documents are searchable and copy/paste is possible into and out of the document.
If Microsoft made a pen like ours they could probably have it transfer directly to OneNote, but the data needs to be handled by our software first then it can be exported to other software.
You can always buy the pen and try it out. We have a 30 day return policy if you don't like it. Here is the link to our online store, http://www.livescribe.com/store
If it's using a PDF though, I would assume that I would have to paste a PDF from livescribe notes and that would the PDF would appear between my existing OneNote entries. If so, that's not integrated enough, and I wouldn't want to try it.
Just purchased a livescribe echo and I'm already fining it useful and productive for note-taking in lectures. I use OneNote and not having the linked audio within the notebook seems bizzare.
To repeat Michael's question: Are there plans / is it possible to have the linked text and audio function from within OneNote without needing to open the PDF? It would seriously increase productivity. Thanks.
I don't if there are plans or if its possible for this feature. It may be the only way OneNote handles pencast PDF documents. I can definitely put in a feature request for consideration.
Thank you,
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
the Software for the io2 Digitalpen seamlessly integrated with OneNote.You could choose what kind of notes you want to be exported and then it exported the jpg file plus the handwriting recognition. To my knowledge it used the MyScript software coming with the product and not OneNote for the handwriting recognition.
Thanks for the info. I will pass that along to the product development team.
It would seem to me one would have to use MyScript where it uses OCR to translate to text. From MyScript one can send to Word or Notepad and then copy/paste to OneNote. It looks like livescribe should be requesting MyScribe to add an export option to OneNote on our behalf.
It would be great if the OCR work was done inside of the livescribe desktop application.
I just got the pen and I can see already this will add additional work. I still like the idea of not having to rewrite notes on the PC. However the process will require a download to the desktop, export to MyScript, OCR convert to text, Export to Word or Notepad, fix OCR errors.
It would be nice to have interagtion features simialr to capturx at
http://www.adapx.com/products/capturx-onenote
Thankyou everyone, I have the Livescripe Pulse and cannot convert to text in any way, third party software no good either. I agree the product should have integration and actually do what it is sold as. It is not only cumbersome, complicated but I think still in a stage of development. Great idea but needs to work.